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tips; the costal nervure and the stigma are sordid brown; 
the radial and cubital nervures, with their branches, are dark 
brown; and the remaining nervures orange; the coxe are 
black ; femora orange ; tibiz yellow, the ends of the posterior 
pair being brown; tarsi brown, having the base of the first 
joint yellow. Length of the imago eight millemetres, 
expanding to seventeen millemetres. 
Notes on Ephyra punctaria and E. pendularia. 
By B. G. Coz, Esq. 
Ir is a well-known fact that the spring and summer broods 
of many insects are very different in appearance and size. In 
some cases, as in Selenia, the variation is so great that the 
two forms might readily be considered distinct, were no other 
data available for arriving at a decision than those afforded 
by the superficial characters of the specimens themselves. 
The genus Ephyra is, I believe, generally considered 
double-brooded, the spring specimens being held to be the 
progeny of the preceding summer one; but in rearing larve 
from the egg I have noticed some facts that seem to show 
that at least a portion of the spring specimens are from the 
same batch of larve as the summer brood, although the two 
forms are so distinct in appearauce. 
On the 2nd of June, 1874, | captured a female E. punc- 
taria at Hall End, Chingford, Essex, which laid a batch 
of eggs, the larve hatching out on the 9th. Most of the larve 
changed to pupe between the 4th and 13th of July; but on 
the 16th of July, when the first moth appeared, I had several 
larve still feeding, and they did not change until the end of 
the month. The last specimen out that season appeared on 
the 26th of July; and on the 24th I had found specimens at 
large in Woodford Forest. These were all the autumnal 
form, distinguished from the spring specimens by being 
smaller, with the two dotted lines more distinct, and having 
between the outer of these and the hind margin of the wings 
two or more blotches of a beautiful purplish brown. 
During the present month (on the Ist and 8rd of May) a 
few specimens bave appeared from the same brood. They are 
